"fringe benefit" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fringe benefits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fringe benefit (plural fringe benefits)
  1. A benefit received in addition to the normal benefits of holding a job, or, by extension, any relationship to the source of the benefit. Synonyms: employee benefit Hyponyms: benefit in kind, non-pecuniary benefit Related terms: perk, perquisite Translations (benefit received in addition to pay): 員工福利 (Chinese Mandarin), 员工福利 (yuángōng fúlì) (Chinese Mandarin), työsuhde-etu (Finnish), Sachbezug [masculine] (German), geldwerter Vorteil (note: in taxation law, precisely the difference by which an employee receives goods below market rates) [masculine] (German), frynsegode [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), frynsegode [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), дополни́тельная льго́та (dopolnítelʹnaja lʹgóta) [feminine] (Russian), retribución en especie [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fringe_benefit-en-noun-405HOws6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
          "word": "員工福利"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
          "word": "työsuhde-etu"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
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          "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
      "word": "員工福利"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yuángōng fúlì",
      "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
      "word": "员工福利"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
      "word": "työsuhde-etu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sachbezug"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "in taxation law, precisely the difference by which an employee receives goods below market rates",
      "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "geldwerter Vorteil"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "frynsegode"
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
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      "roman": "dopolnítelʹnaja lʹgóta",
      "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дополни́тельная льго́та"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "benefit received in addition to pay",
      "tags": [
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